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State manufacturers gather in Trumbull to share ideas BY DAVID KRECHEVSKY REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

Douglas Johnson, far right, vice president of operations for Marion Manufacturing Co. in Cheshire, participates in a panel discussion about finding skilled workers during a manufacturing forum hosted Friday morning by the Connecticut Business and Industry Association and the National Association of Manufacturers at the Trumbull Marriott. Joining Johnson on the panel are, from left: moderator Bonnie Del Conte, president of CONNStep; Karen Wosczyna-Birch, executive director of the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing; David J. Tuttle, manufacturing department head at Platt Technical High School in Meriden; and Jason Howey, president of Okay Industries in New Britain. David Krechevsky Republican-American

TRUMBULL -- Douglas Johnson knows firsthand why manufacturers in the state, and the nation, have a hard time finding young people to replace aging tool & die workers and machinists.

Johnson, vice president of operations at Marion Manufacturing in Cheshire, told the more than 220 people gathered Friday morning at the Trumbull Marriott for a statewide manufacturing forum that the industry has "an identity crisis."

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